French National Centre for Scientific Research

The French National Centre for Scientific Research (French: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, fr, CNRS) is a top public research organization in Europe and one of the most respected in the world.^[2] The CNRS is the biggest organization in Europe that does basic science research.^[3]

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Formation	19 October 1939; 86 years ago (1939-10-19)
Type	Governmental organisation
Purpose	Fundamental research
Headquarters	Campus Gérard Mégie, 16th arrondissement of Paris
Official language	French
President	Antoine Petit [fr]
Main organ	Comité national de la recherche scientifique
Budget	€3.8 billion (2021)[1]
Staff	33,000 (2021)[1]
Website	www.cnrs.fr

In 2016, the CNRS had 31,637 workers. This included 11,137 full-time researchers, 13,415 engineers and technical staff, and 7,085 contract workers.^[4] Its main office is in Paris, and it also has offices in cities like Brussels, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore, Washington, D.C., Bonn, Moscow, Tunis, Johannesburg, Santiago de Chile, cities in Israel, and New Delhi.^[5]

Organization

The CNRS is divided into 10 national institutes:^[3]

• Institute of Chemistry (INC)
• Institute of Ecology and Environment (INEE)
• Institute of Physics (INP) [fr]
• Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3)
• Institute of Biological Sciences (INSB)
• Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS)
• Institute for Computer Sciences (INS2I)
• Institute for Engineering and Systems Sciences (INSIS)
• Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INSMI)
• Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy (INSU)